By the time we got into Lautoka town today I was starving. I hadn’t had anything to eat all day.

We stopped at Pa’s kitchen, a very good restaurant  with Fijian food, but it was closed. So we head down the road to a Chinese restaurant  we hadn’t been to before, “Nina’s”. The restaurant was only a quarter full so we order immediately at the counter. We decide to order takeaway, and and have it in the restaurant since we were sure Joana wouldn’t finish her food, and thus need a takeaway box anyway.

We all leisurely sit down, open each box and we’re just about to eat when we notice that we don’t have forks. Tiare, Vara’s sister walks over to the counter and asks for forks. The restaurant owner starts yelling at her and then Vara and I. “No, forks for takeaway”. Vara asks, “Do we have to pay for the forks?”. The owner yells again, “No, why you want to buy takeaway. If you want to eat here, don’t buy takeaway”. At first we’re a bit puzzled. The owner seems really hot an annoyed and then one of the waitresses starts chiming in. Vara is still puzzled and asks, “Do we have to pay extra to eat here?”. “No, we no want your money”, the restraunt owner is now fully upset.

The guy sitting next us blurts out, “C’mon Nina, just let them eat their food”. The two of them start quarreling. I look over to Vara, “I think we should just go, I don’t feel like eating here”. As we start leaving the owner yells at us, “You buy takeaway, you take it away!”.

Vara and Tiare were pretty shocked, but I’m was just about to die from laughter. That has got to be the funniest thing I’ve heard a restaurant owner say. ”You buy takeaway, you TAKE IT AWAY!”